Prioritize First Thing
Be Clear About Your Real Priorities
- Computer addiction is difficult to break because each activity seems full of many small, possibly rewarding discoveries. In this sense, computer addiction approximates gambling and other addictions, where the possibility of a reward propels the gambler, regardless of overall return. In addition, each online activity literally fills our visual screen, blocking all other activities as semingly peripheral, dull, and unimportant.
- Take care to remind yourself of what you would otherwise be accomplishing, or enjoying, if you were not on the computer. Make a list that is clear when you work - for instance post it on your desktop or near your screen.
